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Mona Lisa off limits as Paris shuts museums over protest fears
PARIS: Disappointed tourists poked their heads through the Louvre’s locked gates on Saturday, shut off from the Mona Lisa as galleries and museums across Paris closed as a precaution ahead of fresh demonstrations. “When we came, we thought there could be a problem but not that the museum would be closed,” Italian social educator Selena Bertoni, 31, said in front of the Musée d’Orsay. On a four-day trip to Paris she had paid €50 ($56) for two tickets to see its Impressionist paintings and other masterpieces. “Bad timing,” she said, with a shrug. The closures came one week after nationwide demon...
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